“A game of cricket is at work from the first ball to the last in shaping an outline or design for itself. Sometimes the design degenerates into dullness and incompetence, but design there always is, and there is an interest even in the tracing of the course and impulse of its failures.”

—  Dudley Carew

To the Wicket (1946)

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English journalist, writer, poet and film critic 1903–1981

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